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The Lone Video-maker’s guide to making videos at home

Make professional quality online videos - all on your own
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Make professional quality online videos - all on your own
Platform: Udemy
Video: 3h 8m
Language: English
Next start: On Demand

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Video Score: 8.0 / 10
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The average video length is 1 hours 46 minutes of 129 Video Creation courses on Udemy.
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About the course

You can make professional-looking videos all on your own. In this course, Huw Collingbourne reveals the secrets that have helped him to become a top-selling online instructor. He takes you behind the scenes of his home studio to show you exactly how he makes videos – entirely on his own – with good visuals, sound and lighting. He explains everything you need to know in order to make a good quality videos without spending a fortune on expensive cameras. And if you want to take the next step towards really pro-grade video productions, he explains how to set up a dedicated home video studio
In this course you will learn about:
•Cameras: pocket cameras and phones, tablets and digital SLR cameras•Microphones: desktop USB mics, camera-mounded mics, lapel mics, hand-held recorders and more •Audio: using ‘pop filters’ and ‘dead cat’ wind shields•Video with your iPad: and tips on recording great sound with an external microphone•Lighting: Natural lighting, cheap ‘softbox’ lighting and pro-grade LED lights•Backdrops: White, black and coloured backdrops or ‘on location’•Scripting and presenting: talking to camera, using teleprompters or autocues•Plus: Field monitors, GoPro cameras, selecting tripods, filming with multiple cameras, synchronizing audio, optimizing video and much more…

What can you learn from this course?

✓ Make pro quality videos on a budget
✓ Shoot videos at home or set up a home studio
✓ Choose and use cameras, microphones and lighting
✓ Script, present and produce videos all on your own
✓ Take the first steps to an online career in video

What you need to start the course?

• Familiarity with online videos and the enthusiasm to learn how to make videos at home without a team of people to help you. A pocket camera, HD phone, tablet or digital SLR is enough to get started.

Who is this course is made for?

• Anyone who wants to make a career in online video
• Newcomers to video-making who need to know where to start
• Someone with basic video-making experience who wants to take the next step
• Anyone who needs help to choose equipment to make good videos alone
• This course is NOT aimed at video-production teams with large budgets

Are there coupons or discounts for The Lone Video-maker’s guide to making videos at home ? What is the current price?

The course costs $14.99. And currently there is a 73% discount on the original price of the course, which was $54.99. So you save $40 if you enroll the course now.
The average price is $15.5 of 129 Video Creation courses. So this course is 3% cheaper than the average Video Creation course on Udemy.

Will I be refunded if I'm not satisfied with the The Lone Video-maker’s guide to making videos at home course?

YES, The Lone Video-maker’s guide to making videos at home has a 30-day money back guarantee. The 30-day refund policy is designed to allow students to study without risk.

Are there any financial aid for this course?

Currently we could not find a scholarship for the The Lone Video-maker’s guide to making videos at home course, but there is a $40 discount from the original price ($54.99). So the current price is just $14.99.

Who will teach this course? Can I trust Huw Collingbourne?

Huw Collingbourne has created 16 courses that got 10,807 reviews which are generally positive. Huw Collingbourne has taught 87,265 students and received a 4.5 average review out of 10,807 reviews. Depending on the information available, we think that Huw Collingbourne is an instructor that you can trust.
Director of Technology, SapphireSteel Software
  Huw Collingbourne is the technology director at SapphireSteel Software, developers of programming tools for Microsoft Visual Studio. He is author of The Little Book Of C, The Little Book Of Pointers and The Little Book Of Recursion from Bitwise Books and of The Book Of Ruby from No Starch Press. He runs Bitwise Courses and teaches courses on a range of programming topics. 
     Huw has been a programmer for more than 30 years. He is a well-known technology writer in the UK. For over ten years he wrote the Delphi and Java programming column for PC Plus Magazine.  He has also written numerous opinion and programming columns (including tutorials on C#, C++, Smalltalk and Ruby) for a number of computer magazines, such as Computer Shopper, PC Pro, and PC Plus. 
     In the 1980s he was a pop music journalist and interviewed most of the New Romantic stars, such as Duran Duran, Spandau Ballet, Adam Ant, Boy George, and Depeche Mode. He is now writing a series of 1980s murder mysteries. 
     At various times Huw has been a magazine publisher, editor, and TV broadcaster. He has an MA in English from the University of Cambridge and holds a 2nd dan black belt in aikido, a martial art which he teaches in North Devon, UK. The aikido comes in useful when trying (usually unsuccessfully) to keep his Pyrenean Mountain Dogs under some semblance of control. 
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Platform: Udemy
Video: 3h 8m
Language: English
Next start: On Demand

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